Breaking Out In a Cold Sweat

My first after-market hard drive cost me about $250 and was 212 megabytes. I bought it to supplement the 40MB C drive in my 386. And yeah...I still have the drive (dead of course) sitting here at my desk to remind me of my technological roots.

Now I see this: Coming soon: The 8-terabyte desktop | CNET News.com.

VooDoo PC, a very high end PC maker is planning on dropping a 8-9 TB (terabyte)...(TERABYTE!!!) beast for around 8-9K...I don't know about you, but I'm about ready to sell my car to get one of these things. I'm been chomping at the bit for some new hardware as I'm still running on a crappy (yet venerable) old AMD 750Mhz box with a max'd out ram at 512MB. Yeah you heard me...talk about oldschool.

Anyhow...I just need to figure out how I can shoehorn a measly 12-grand out of my tight little budget (what you didn't think I was going to run this bad boy on an only monitor? I need a nice 30 inch flat panel of course!) and get myself on the waiting list for one of these things. Where'd I put my bank robbery plans again? Ah, here they are....